Wireless backup to Time Capsule too slow?

Hi to all,
I have a working wi-fi network: a 500gb time capsule + 2 airport express (the old b/g model); the capsule is WDS main, each express is a remote wds.
*normal network file transfers run at acceptable speed*, however time machine has a lot of problems:
(1) the first backup ~80gb was made via 1Gb ethernet in a few hours -- perfect
(2) incremental backups take a VEEERY long time to do... basically nothing. here's a log: 40 minutes to transfer 1KB!
Sep 2 06:13:30 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Starting standard backup
Sep 2 06:13:30 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/DoubleStar Storage
Sep 2 06:14:03 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Disk image /Volumes/DoubleStar Storage/SilverChariot_001f5bec24ca.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of SilverChariot
Sep 2 06:14:03 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of SilverChariot/Backups.backupdb
Sep 2 06:28:29 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 384.11 GB available
Sep 2 06:28:29 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:28:59 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:29:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:30:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:30:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:31:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:31:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:32:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:32:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:33:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:50:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 2 06:51:48 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Copied 343 files (1 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 2 06:51:52 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Starting post-backup thinning
Sep 2 06:51:52 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Sep 2 06:51:52 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Backup completed successfully.
Sep 2 06:52:11 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Sep 2 06:52:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
(3) time machine is indeed very fragile. if I put the computer to sleep while t.m. is running, the next time I read this in console:
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
and it takes 4 or 5 hours to backup few MB
in this case, network activity is high: it seems that macbook is downloading a lot from time capsule... anyway it stays a lot of time in "preparing backup", and even when it starts backup, it backs up soooo slowly.
here's what I tried:
(1) format time capsule and restart
(2) erase spotlight index in macbook, reindex everything with time machine off, then reactivate spotlight
(3) turned off wds remotes and connected directly to time capsule
any other hint?
thanks, MH

Here's a new conjecture: TM via ethernet works smoothly.
May this be related to wi-fi encryption (I use WPA2)?

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Hello.
Currently I have a wifi modem router (802.11g) Zyxel whose ports ethernet (10/100) have connected the following:
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The network works because I see all the computers, but is very slow.
Theoretically, the PLC adapter is transparent in an ethernet network and does not influence the rate of data transfer.
It is as if they were incompatible the TC Gigabit ports with the PLC adapter.
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Greetings

chris_gmu wrote:
What I did was to connect an ethernet port of Time Capsule back to the ethernet port of my mac book pro but nothing changed. Still very slow in backupx
Yes, that's what I meant, sorry.
and my internet connection is unstable reqularly disconnecting...
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If its possible answers in German;-)
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Deleting old Backups from Time capsule ist very slow.
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